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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Persona UI - Item Search By Category with "Must be in ALL categories" option

Customers want to search using multiple categories. In Admin UI, customers search for parts that exist in all of their selected categories from multiple hierarchies. This can be done by “Must be in ALL categories” option on the Admin UI. But the s...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

options itemerror

I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

To add a built in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2

CCB want to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2 for z/OS. There is an alternative way of using UDF, but customer worry about it's perfromance, they prefer to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in SQL. The REVERSE function is use...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD should not be restarted when Apply fails during SET INTEGRITY

When setting up Replication for a DB2 Table for the first time Apply will use a LOAD FROM Cursor to do an initial copy of the tables data. If there are constraints or generated columns defined for that table Apply will issue a SET INTEGRITY comman...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Drill through to a specific tab

Our team uses IBM Cognos Report Studio to create Reports for our customer. We have created a report with three tabs. In the second tab there is a Drill-through to the same tab, the second. When the author opens the report in Report Studio and clic...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manage Data Source Connection Schemas as limited user

To expose a schema as a data server component for Data Modules, the administrator has to modify the connection and apply the schema. When in that screen, the user could also drop the data source or connection. As an OEM provider that sets up solut...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

event monitor tables (activity/actitivtystmt/activitymetrics) should support range partitioning

event monitor tables do not support range partitioning. In addition, you can not create expression based indexes on them. This makes them more difficult to manage and query. create event monitor wlm_activity_mon for activitieswrite to table activi...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Active Form functionality to Expand/Collapse columns for PAX & Perspectives

At the moment you can only use Active Form expandable/collapsible consolidations in rows only. Customers is asking can that same functionality to be added to columns also. For example they could collapse/expand years to months and vice versa.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cannot copy/paste from Team content to Users' My content

I didn't find a way to copy a report from Team content to a User My content ... in v10 I just had to click checkbox in front of the report, hit copy button, then go in the security, browse to find the user My folder, go in and Paste. Now the only ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration